TL: Hua
Note: I change Midnight fun show to Midnight happy show to match the name of the town.
Everyone walked along the path while observing the scene in the town.
“There are so few people…” Xie Yuanyuan muttered.
Indeed, the tidy streets were empty without a single person, except for the hot breeze that swept through their clothes and messed up their hair.
The glass doors of the restaurant are closed; the store is empty; and the roofs of the cars parked on the side of the road are covered with dust, as if abandoned by their owners. Wen Zheliu seemed to catch a glimpse of some movement from the corner of his eye. He looked up and saw a woman was standing upstairs, peeping at them through a gap in the curtain. Her eyes were full of wariness and vigilance. Noticing that Wen Zheliu had discovered her, her expression changed. She quickly furrowed her brows and threw the curtains shut.
“How odd.” He couldn’t help but say.
Next to him, Chen Feiluan turned his head and asked in a consultative tone, “Mr. Wen, what opinion do you have?”
“Just call me by my name; you don’t have to be so polite.” Wen Zheliu smiled and said, “It’s just the beginning. It’s not good to draw conclusions too early.”
Li Tianyu rolled her eyes and said coldly, “I’m afraid there will be some ignorant, shallow-sighted people who will hide everything regardless of the overall situation just to keep their ranking.”
After speaking, she quickened her pace without looking back and walked towards the hotel entrance, which was not far away.
“Sorry, Zheliu,” Chen Feiluan’s expression was a bit embarrassed, “Tianyu, she…”
“She’s the biological sister of Li Rong, the leader of Blazing Ambition, right?” He Qin smiled, but his eyes were cold, clear, and even a little sharp. “It’s been a long time, but her outspoken personality still hasn’t been corrected?”
Chen Feiluan was taken aback: “You…”
“Last time, she insisted on going her own way and used her influence and status to drive away the veteran player of the same group, which then caused constant negative public opinion on your team’s image. The PR team sent by N-Star resolved this problem for you guys, right?” He Qin looked straight ahead without giving the man a single glance and said in a calm tone, “A year has passed, and not only has she not learned her lessons, but she has caused troubles, big and small, and has never stopped. If it weren’t for her own abilities and her extreme personality that attracted a group of loyal supporters, N-Star’s would have ordered her to quit as a shareholder.”
Chen Feiluan’s face was cloudy and uncertain, and his complexion changed several times. He Qin said: “Now this is the uncanny valley isolated from the world, not Nova City, nor her brother’s or Blazing Ambition’s territory. If there are still smart people in your group, you might as well advise this young lady to restrain herself. There won’t be anyone here willing to spoil her.”
Chen Feiluan’s gaze was full of inquiry: “Dare to ask your Excellency…”
Next to him, Du Zijun finally couldn’t help himself and said with a fake smile, “Staff, don’t ask.”
Wen Zheliu coughed lightly, signaling He Qin to take it easy and not overdo it.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Welcome, welcome—” the short and stout old man at the front desk scratched his red nose and spoke in a weak voice, “Welcome to Melios Town—”
“A total of ten people, old sir.” Bai Jingxing said with a smile.
The old man shook his head, the spider-like white hair trembling on his light pink scalp, “Just call me boss!” At my old age, I still have to guard such a half-dead ghost place without any waiters or maids…John! Come here quickly and take them upstairs!”
There was a muffled answer from down the corridor.
Sometimes he mumbled and grumbled; sometimes his thin lips were tightly closed, and his cloudy blue eyes kept scanning the travelers in front of him, as if they owed him a lot of money. After thinking about it, Wen Zheliu went up to him and asked, “Boss, how much does it cost for a day’s stay?”
The hotel owner replied listlessly: “According to the rules of our hotel, the number of people who come in total is the number of days you can stay. For the remaining day, you can come back to pay later!”
Everyone froze for a moment.
Wen Zheliu frowned and said, “You mean we don’t need to pay for our stay now. Nine people can stay for a full nine days and come down to pay after nine days, right?”
The hotel owner still looked uninterested and said in a rough voice, “I’m not deaf; you don’t need to repeat what I just said! John, did you die there, kid? Why haven’t you come after so long!”
The male waiter finally poked his head out of the room and shouted this way: “Boss, I’m looking for the key—!”
“Damn it, I shouldn’t have taken in this stupid pig in the first place!” The hotel owner spat on the ground, regardless of whether it would dirty the beautiful carpet under his feet. “Then you wait here first.”
Li Tianyu saw the opportunity and asked the hotel owner, “By the way, boss, do you know why this place is called Happy Town?”
Hearing her question, Xie Yuanyuan yelped, feeling that something was wrong.
Wen Zheliu had a bad premonition and hurriedly called out, “Hey…”
But it was too late. As soon as Li Tianyu finished speaking, the hotel owner’s originally vacant eyes gradually became concentrated. He looked back and forth at the players’ attire and then fixed Li Tianyu with a deadly stare and asked in a hoarse voice, “Since you don’t know the origin of Happy Town, why did you specially come here?”
Wen Zheliu has a hunch that if this question is left to Li Tianyu to answer, everyone’s participation value will directly drop by a large margin!
Xi Ling frowned, Chen Feiluan grabbed Li Tianyu’s wrist, and Bai Jingxing also hastened to remedy the situation: “We are……”
Before he finished speaking, Du Zijun crushed the cigarette butt deeply onto the wooden front desk painted with glossy varnish. The cigarette butt sizzled, causing a burnt hole to appear on the previously smooth, mirror-like tabletop.
Everyone: “…”
Hotel owner: “…?”
“We’re just asking a question. Why are you so fussy?” The young girl raised her ink-black eyebrows, then took out the cigarette case from her trouser pocket. With a flick of her thumb, she grabbed a slender cigarette and held it to her mouth. A frightening impatience flashed in the depths of her pupils. “Just passing by and staying for a few days already gave you enough face. You think anyone needs to know the origin of this sh*t town? If you want to talk, talk, but if you don’t want to talk, shut your mouth! No one’s begging you.”
Wen Zheliu sighed, smiled serenely, and turned to look at the blue sky outside the window.
… It’s really a familiar recipe with a familiar taste.
On the other hand, the few people who had never seen Sister Du’s tactics were almost thrown away by such a trick, and couldn’t even control their expressions for a moment. The corners of Bai Jingxing’s mouth trembled: “That, Miss Du, you are…”
The hotel owner looked at the hole in the table and stared at Du Zijun for a long time. Seeing that the other party had a strong aura and simply didn’t yield to his trick, he slowly bowed down, wanting to cry without tears: “Alright, Alright! This fierce young lady, just pretend I asked the wrong question!”
“Huh?” Not expecting the arrogant man to change his attitude, the crowd froze for a moment.
Generally speaking, in the early stages of the game, the system will consciously give the player an identity that is easy to integrate into the world. Sometimes they are tourists, sometimes they are travelers passing by, and possibly journalists who come to investigate, writers who collect records of paranormal events, and so on.
Seeing the welcome street sign before, Wen Zheliu could guess that since the destination is such a place with local characteristics, the identities assigned to them by the system are tourists. However, Li Tianyu’s mental problem just now made the players’ participation value dangerous for a moment, and then Du Zijun forcibly changed their status from tourists to passing travelers. It can only be said that this teammate of his is very reliable.
“The reason why Happy Town is called Happy Town is because there is a very famous reality show in the town.” The boss took out a rag from under the table and began to wipe the cigarette burn. “Every night at twelve o’clock, it will air regularly on a special channel. It’s a very fascinating show.”
Wen Zheliu hurriedly asked, “How so?”
“Because everyone who has seen it was enthralled and chose to stay here forever, accompanied by happiness.” The hotel owner grinned and said, “You see, that’s why Melios is also called Happy Town.”
“They all choose to stay here, to be with happiness…” Bai Jingxing fell into deep thought and said, “I understand.”
After saying these words, the hotel owner shut his mouth, and at the same time, the waiter John found the key to the room and came over to lead the crowd upstairs.
He is thin, with messy brown hair and some freckles on his face, making him look like a reckless kid. As he walked, he introduced to everyone: “There are four floors in this hotel, but because the top floor is unoccupied—in fact, the second and third floors are also unoccupied—you can stay on the second floor. And there’s a large reception room at the end of the corridor. Use the remote control to tune in the channel, and you can watch the Midnight Happy Show!”
“Midnight Happy Show…is that what you call it?” He Qin asked with great interest.
“That’s right, sir, that’s right…” John took several keys from the key chain hanging around his waist, “John took off several keys from the key chain hanging on his waist: “The room keys are here; you can assign your own room; the extra one is the key to the reception room. There are no other guests during this time anyway, so I’ll just leave it to you.”
Chen Feiluan asked, “All the rooms here are for two people?”
John replied, “Yes, sir. Standard suite, double room. If any guest wants to live in a single room, I can take them to the third floor.”
“That won’t be unnecessary.” Xi Ling said with a serious face, “We’d better live on the same floor.”
Wen Zheliu nodded in agreement. The main quest has already started, and they are now in escape mode. Gathering teammates together is indeed one of the safest ways.
“My brother and I will share a room.” He Qin was the first to pick a key away from John’s hand, and winked slyly at Wen Zheliu, saying, “Others can do as they please.”
Wen Zheliu’s eyes were brimming with uncontrollable laughter, and he mouthed to He Qin: You are so annoying.
Bai Jingxing also went up to pick out a key: “Let’s go, vice captain; we are sharing one room.”
Lin Miao nodded.
John turned to several other people and said, “What about you?”
Li Tianyu bit her lip, still feeling frustrated by the stupidity she had just committed. She stared at the waiter’s palm and said in a low voice, “I’ll share a room with a girl…”
“No way.” Du Zijun flatly retorted, “I can only stay in a room by myself, I can’t stay with others.”
Li Tianyu was taken aback and then felt her face burning as if she had been slapped. She then shouted in anger, “You!”
“Miss Li!” Wen Zheliu quickly called out, “Du…Du Zijun’s situation is indeed a bit special. He has always been alone; please don’t mind. He has nothing against you.”
He Qin also chimed in: “There are enough rooms. Anyone can stay wherever they want. There’s no need to set restrictions.”
“One room for me.” Du Zijun took a key and said to John, “What are you looking at? Think I can’t pay you?”
“Then I’ll have a room for myself!” Li Tianyu snatched the key angrily and said, “What a bunch of f*cking freaks!”
Chen Feiluan persuaded her in a low voice: “Okay, Tianyu, say less.”
After that, he turned to Xi Ling and said, “Captain Xi, so I’m with you?”
It could be seen that they didn’t ignore Xi Ling’s feelings just because he was still young. The young and intelligent captain in front of them still had a very high status.
“Okay.” Xi Ling replied sternly.
Xie Yuanyuan looked at these ordinary humans with a mournful expression and silently took a key, then turned around and drifted back into the team.
Du Zijun grabbed his collar, looked at the room number, and went up to give him a new one.
“You live in the room next to mine,” he said.
John shrugged, unable to understand the undercurrent surging among the guests. Seeing him leave, He Qin turned his head and said, “Start searching for clues; this is the important task.”
When everyone is here you call him “brother”, but when you’re alone, you call him “baby”
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RIP little spring ahahahahah
Sister Du is the best 😂 😍
Sister Du is surely a boss teammate! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️